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Phone No. 91
JOHN l<. RUGGARD
Barrister, Segca'ter,:
Notary PUb1ik, Etc,
/cattle Block - - Seaford*, Oat.
Be ,1% HATS'
Barrister,' Solicitoir, .; . Conveyancer
and Notary Public. Solicitor for the
Dominion Bank. 'Office in rear of the
Dominion Bank, ,Seaforth Money to
s.
BEST & BEST
Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan-
tees and Notaries Public, Etc. Office
in the Edge Building, opposite The
Expositor Office.
VETERINARY
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JOHN GRIEVE, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-.
arl• College. All disease of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinaryDentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Goderioh Street, one
door east of Dr. Mackay's office, Sea-
teeth.
A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S.
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary
College, University of Toronto. All
diseases of domestic animals treated
the most modern principles.
Bhargea reasonable. Day or night
galla promptly attended to. Office on
Main Street, 'Hensall, opposite Town
Phone 116.
MEDICAL
DR. E. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Ophthal-
Mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Dye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pltsls, London, Eng. At Commercial
Hotel, Seaforth, third Monuay in
each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
No visit in August.
DR. 'W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
'University of Western Ontario, Lon-
don. Member of College of Physic-
ians and Surgeons of Ontario.. Office
In Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
;Beaforth. Phone 90.
DR. R. P. I. DOUGALL
Honor graduate of Faculty of
Medicine and Master of Science, Uni-
versity of Western Ontario, London.
Member of College of Physicians and
Surgeons of 'Ontario. Office 2 doors
oast of post office. Phone 56, Neilsall,
Ontario. 3004-tf
DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY
Bayfield.
Graduate Dublin University, Ire-
knd. Late Extern Assistant Master
Motanda Hospital for Women end
Children, Dublin. Office at residence
lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons.
Hours: 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.,
Bundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26
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DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence Goderich Street,
'rest of the United Church, Sea-
terth Phone 46. Coroner for the
County of Huron.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay, honor' graduate of Trin-
tty University, and gold medalist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ;
"nyal Ophthalmis Hospital, London,
]land; University Hospital, Lon -
doh, England. Office -'Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls anis'weired from residence,
jfletoria Street, Seaforth.
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DR. J. A. MUNN
Graduate of Northwestern Univers-
CChicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal
ollege of Dental Surgeons, Toronto.
Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St ,
Seaforth. Phone 151.
DR. F. J. BECHELY
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Imam* Toronto. Office over W. R.
ly•�sGrocery, Main Street, Sea-
Verth. Phones: Office, 18b W; resi-
dence, 185J.
CONSULTING ENGINEER
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CITA'PTER I
A dark night, ,but a clear one. No
clouds, no fog, and the wind but a
light south-westerly breeze. Warm,
too, for November. The little room In
the tower of the .Setuckit Life -Saving
Station was chilly, of eouise-a lands-
man might have considered it decid-
edly cold ---but to Seleucus Gammon,
the member of the Setuckit crew on
watch in theower, .it was warm, no-
ticeably and 'surprisingly so. Seleucus,
who had come on duty dressed for the
ordinary November temperature, had
unbuttoned the heavy jacket which he
w re. over his sweater and had hung
hii. cap' on the hook on the wall be-
side the round, brass ship's clock. The
brass of the clock was polished' to a
mirror-like glisten. So, too, was the
metal of the telescope on its stand
in the middle of the room. So, also,
was every particle of brass or nickel
in that room. There was no light to
render these things visible, and no
stove or other heating apparatus.
Heat within and cold without meant
frost -covered' "window -panes and con-
sequently difficulty in looking through
and ' from those windows, in keeping
watch up and down the beaches and
over the stretches of sea and shoal.
In many stations at this period it was
not customary to keep a man on
watch in the tower at night; the re-
gulations did not require it and the
matter was left to the discretion of
the keeper. At Setuckit, however,
night watch in the tower was a part
of the regular routine; at least, since
Captain Oswald Myrick had been in
charge there.
Seleucus strolled slowly about the
glass -enclosed room, stopping to peer
from each window in turn. He was
a huge, 'bulky man, with a salt -sea
roll in his walk, and as he lumbered
from window to window in the dark-
ness, a seeker for comparisons might
have been reminded. of a walrus wal-
lowing about in an undersized tank.
A bald head and a tremendous sweep
of shaggy moustache were distinct
aids to the walrus suggestion.
The views from each window were
made up solely of blackness, spotted
with fiery points. To Seleucus, how-
ever, the blackness was underlaid with
the familiarity of long acquaintance,
and every pin -prick of fire a punctua-
tion on a page he knew by heart. For
example, to the east, ten miles away,
the steady white spark was the Or -
ham lighthouse shining out from the
high sand bluffs fronting the Atlan-
tic. Far out, and more to the south,
another brilliant point marked the
position of the lightship at Sand Hill
Shoal, and still farther to the south-
east and fainter, because of distance,
were the lanterns of the Broad Rip
lightship. Swinging to the south he
noted two more lightships, those
marking respectively the edges of the
Tarpaulin and Hog's Back, smaller
shoals but quite as dangerous as their
bigger broth'rs. To the west was
still another, that moored by Mid -
channel Shoal, and still farther to
the south-east and fainter, because
of distance, were the lanterns of the
Broad Rip lightship. Swinging to
the south he noted two more light-
ships, those marking respectively the
edges of the Harpaulin and Hog's
Back, smaller shoal's but quite as dan-
gerous as their bigger brothers. To
the west was still another, that moor-
ed by Midchannel Shoal, and, eight
miles beyond on Crow Ledge, unique
because, like the house in the Scrip-
tural story, it was founded upon a
rock, and rocks are distinct novelties
along the Cape Cod coast.
On this night -or morning, for it
was almost that -and visible because
of the unwonted clearness of the at-
mosphere, one more spark pricked
the southern horizon, the light at
Long Point, on Nonscusset Island.
Between these were scattered others,
much less brilliant, and these the
watcher knew to be the lights of ves-
sels -schooners for the most part -
taking advantage of the fair weather
to make safe passage between ports
south of "Down East." From the
tower of the Setuckit Life -Saving
Station in the later years of the nine-
teenth century -the years before the
United States Life -Saving Service was
taken over by the Naval Department
and rechristened the Coast Guard, be-
fore the era of wireless stations and
the Cape Cod Canal -on a cl` r night
from Setuckit tower one mit count
no less than six lighthouses and six
lightships, not including that of Set-
uckit lighthouse itself, which reared
its blazing head two miles up the
beach, and was, therefore, a next-
door neighbor.
A beautiful coast in summer; in
winter a wicked, cruel coast, where,
so the records show, there were more
wrecks during a period of fifty years
than at any 'other spot, except one,
from Key West to Eastport, Maine.
These matters, statistical and pic-
turesque, were not, of course, in the
thoughts of Mr. Gammon as he stood,
hands in pockets, gazing through the
tower window facing west. His men-
tal' speculations were engaged with
matters much more personal and in-
timate. The little ship's clock on the
wall had just struck twice, therefore
it would soon be daybreak, and, later,
sunrise when his watch would end.
He knew also that, down below, in
the kitchen of the station, Ellis Bad-
ger, who happened to be cook that
week, was preparing breakfast.
Breakfast, the first meal of the four
in the station routine of those days,
was served before daylight. Dinner
was at eleven, supper at four, and
there was an, extra meal about eight
in the evening.
S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc., (Tor.),
O.'L.S., Registered Professional En -
and Lend Surveyor. Associate
her Engineering Institute of Can-
eds.'. Office, Seaforth, Ontario.
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AUCTIONEERS
THOMAS BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the co inities
et Huron and Perth.
arrangements forsale dates Correspondence
can be
made by calling The Exposit i,r Office
Seaforth. Charges moderate, a n d
satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 302.
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dropped the kitchen cake of soap in-
to the bean pot on a Saturday of the
previous winter. The comments of
iris comrade were expressed with
feeling.
"You ain't mad, be you, Seleucus?"
queried Mr. 'Badger solicitously. Gam-
mon's reply was non -committal.
"I don't know's I'm so Thad that
they'll have to shoot me, Ellis," he
observed. '"I ain't bit nobody yet.
But I am beginnin' to show signs -
I'm frothin' at the mouth."
It was he, also, who suggested that
the soap be put into the Bodger cof-
fee. "So's it'll be strong enough to
wash with," he explained, referring
to the coffee.
His anticipations concerning break-
fast were not therefore, -entirely
free from misgiving, but forty-nine
years of a life spent amid storms--
meteorological
torms✓meteorological always and matrimon-
ial for the latter half -had endowed
Seleucus with a sort of amphibious
philosophy, and made him more or
less weatherproof. The most savage
north -easter blew itself out eventual-
ly, and Mrs. Gammon her Christian
name was Jemina--stopped' talking
if one had sufficient fortitude to en-
dure to the end. The sane procedure
during both trials was patiently to
wait for that end, and think of some-
ing else while waiting.
So, true to his code, and reflecting
that, after all, a poor breakfast was
better than no breakfast, Mr. Gammon
shifted his thought, also his pbsition,
and, walking to the eastern window,
looked out from that. As he stood
there the eastern horizon turned from
black to grey, the low -hanging stars
above it began to dim; and below
him the sand dunes and the cluster
of shanties and fish houses of the lit-
tle settlement at Setuckit Point slow-
ly emerged from the gloom, separated,
and assumed individual shape and pro-
portions.
A step sounded on the stair lead-
ing to the tower, the door opened and
Calvin Homer entered the little room.
Homer was Number One man at' the
Setuckit Station; that is, his was,
next to Captain Oswald Myrick's, the
-position of greatest responsibility and
command. On board a ship he would
haye ranked as mate and his associ-
ates would have added 'a "sir" to their
remarks when addressing ,him. On
the station records he was "Surfman
Number One," but hie comrades call-
ed him` Calvin or "Cal," just as they
called their commander "Cap'n Oz"
or "Ozzie." ,The keeper of a Cape'
Cod Life -Saving Station, at that time;
had absolute and autocratic control of
his crew while the latter were on
duty, and the crew recognized and
obeyed that authority. But, being in-
dependent Yankees, they remained
democrats so far as verbal homage to
rank and title was concerned.
Homer came into the tower room,
closing the door behind him. He. was
twenty-six, lean, squareeehouldered,
smooth -faced, grey -eyed, and sun-
burned to a deep brick -red. He had
just come up from his cot in the
sleeping quarters on the second floor,
and was wearing his blue uniform
suit, with "NO. I" in white upon the
coat sleeves. Gammon noticed the
uniform immediately.
"Hello, Cal," he drawled. "Up
airly, ain't you? And all togged out,
too. Practisin' up to show off afore
the girls next summer?"
Homer smiled. "Next summer is
a long way off, Seleucus," he said.
"Huh! Maybe 'tis when a feller is
as young as you be. I'll be fifty next
June and I can smell Mayflowers al-
ready. How's Cap'n Ozzie this morn -
in'?"
"I don't know. His door is shut,
so I hope he's asleep, and his wife
too. I didn't hear anybody moving
as I came by. 'It was a quiet night,
so maybe they both slept. I hope so.
The cap'n needs all the rest he can
get. He starts for home this moor�rn-
ing•Utn-hum. I know he does. Peleg
Myrick's goin' to take him over, they
tell me. Good thing there's a smooth
sea. That old craft of Peleg's is as
sloppy as a dish pan if there's m:ore'n
a hatful of water stirrin'. I went up
to Orham along of Peleg my last lib-
erty day but one, and-crimustee!-I
give you my word I thought I'd be
drownded afore we made Baker's
beach. I told Peleg so. 'What's the
matter with ye?' 'says 'Peleg. 'This
boat of mine'll weather anything!' he
says; 'and this ain't nothin' but a
moderate blow. You won't get over-
board this trip.' 'I know it,' I told
him, 'and, that's the trouble. When
I'm overboard I can cal'late to make
out to swim, but aboard here all I
can do is set still and wait for the
tide to go over my head. That last
sea we shipped filled my ileskins full
to the waist. Let me take your hand
pump so I can see how bad my boots
leak.' He, he! Crimus! Peleg nam-
ed that boat of his the Wild Duck. I
told him he'd ought to named her the
loon. 'A loon spends half his time
under water,' I says. He, he! . . .
Humph! Wonder to me Ozzie didn't
have a boss "n' team to come down
over the beach to fetch him and his
wife. Don't see why he didn't, do
you?"
Homer shook his bead. "It's a
rough road and a long one," lie said.
"I guess his wife thought it would be
easier for a sick man to travel to West
Herniss by water. And it's 'almost a
flat calm just now."
"Jest now? Do you mean 'tain't
likely to last?"
"I'm afraid not -all day. The glass
has fallen a good deal since ten o'clock
and it's still going down. . . . Well
has anything happened since you came
on watch?"
OSCAR K4OPP
Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na-
tional School for Auctioneering, Chi-
cago, Special course taken in Pure
Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mar-
ebandise and Farm Sales. ' Rates in
keeping with prevailing market. Sat•
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18-98.
R. T. LUKER
Licensed auctioneer for the County
of Huron. Sales attended o in all
peribof the comity. Belrekk_years' ex-
nce in Manitoba add
Tempa ramble. 1� No.
1'f8 r il, Lr, Jtee, Ceiatral3s P.O.,,
No. L O left at The MOM Es -
Moe, 'Seaforth, promptly at -
to.
'Uardly. I put the 'unform on to
please the skipper, $e told me he
wished I would. ,,mid it would make
him feel a little mere as if he wax
leaving somebody in command here
When he quit. +I e'e pretty blue at:
going, -but I tell him he'll be back
here as well as ever in a fortnight
or so."
Mr. Gammon shook his head, sigh-
ed, and reached into his pocket •for
his chewing tobacco.
"That's what you told him, was
it?" he observed. "Humph! Ain't
you ever been to prayer-meetin'?"
"I guess I have. What's that got
to do with it?"
Seleucus inserted the plug of to-
bacco between his teeth and bit and
tugged until he separated a -section,
which he tucked into his cheek.
"I used to go to Methodist vestry
meetin' myself about thirty years ago
or such a matter," he observed. "I
went to meetin' Friday nights pretty
reg'Iar. I was always the churchy
kind. You see, there was a girl that
-well, never mind that part. But at
them meetin's, time and again, Ive
heard your geeat-uncle, Zebedee Ry-
der, him that kept grocery store, rant
and rave about the sin of lyin'. He
wouldn't tell a lie for nothin', your
Uncle Zeb wouldn't. Used to make
his brags about it right out loud."
"Well, it was something to brag
about -if it was true."
"Oh, I guess likely 'twas true en-
ough. Nigh as I ever heard Zeb
Ryder wouldn't tell a lie -for nothin'.
If there was five cents to be got a
holt of, then things might be differ-
ent. . . But, anyhow, what I'm
tryin' to say is that I can't under-
stand how you, one of Uncle Ze'b's
own-er-ancestors, can sit in the
skipper's room down below there and
tell Ozzie that he'll be back here in a
fortni't. You know plaguy well he'll
,never come back."
The younger man did not answer
immediately. When he did he said, "I
surely hope he will."
"So do I -in one way. In another,,
I don't. Oz Myrick has been life -say -
in' for twenty -odd year. He was one
of the first surfmen on one of the
fust reg'lar crews ever set patrollin'
a Cape Cod beach. Afore that he was
fishin' on the Banks, and swabbin'
decks aboard a square rigger when
he wa'n't more'n a kid. He's pretty
nigh as much of a veteran as Super-
intendent Kellogg, down to Province -
town. It's time he give up and took
a rest. Yes, and his check is about
ready to be handed in for keeps. He's
sick and itis the kind of sickness folks
his age don't get over."
'Homer nodded. "He knows it," he
said, briefly.
"Course he knows it, Cap'n Oz
ain't anybody's fool. Told you he was
cal'latin' to try and have you appoint-
ed keeper in his place, didn't he?"
Homer looked at him sharply. "What
makes you say that?" he demanded.
"'Cause he told me he' was eal'-
latin' to. Good notion too.'
His companion shook his head. "I'm
not so sure that the notion is good,"
he said. "There are at least five
men here, and one of 'em is yourself
who have been in the service longer
than 'I have."
"Humph! I cal'late you could find
plenty of fellers up to Charlestown
jail that have been in there long
enough, but 'twouldn't be one of
them that would be picked out for
warden. It takes more'n a kag of
salt mackerel on legs to handle this
job down here. It takes a man -
with brains. We've got a good crew,
there's no doubt about that."
"You bet there isn't!"
"I shouldn't take no such bet. They
are all right, for this Setuckit crew.
But what are they? Why, the heft
of 'em are fellers like me, that have
been in and on and around salt wa-
ter so long the pickle drips off 'em
when they walk. They ain't scared
of nothin'. I giye in to that, but that
ain't because they don't know enough
to be. They're too stubborn to let
anything scare 'em, that's why. But
they're as independent and cranky
as a parcel of washtubs afloat. A
man they know and have confidence
in, he can handle 'em. But you let
somebody try it that ain't that kind
and then see. Would I take the. job
of keeper down here? I, nor Hez
Rogers, nor Ed. Bloomer, nor Sam
Bearse, nor any of 'em? You bet we
wouldn't!"
"Why not?"
"'Cause we've got sense enough to
realize the kind of sense we ain't got.
A good fo'mast hand don't necessary
make a good skipper. Takes more'n
rubber muscles and codline hair, that
does. Takes brains, I tell you. You've
got brains, Cal, along with nerve and
the rest of it. You can handle a
schooner in a shoal, or a surfman
that's been on liberty, and has come
back full of pepper tea, and do it
judgmatically. When you get through
the wreck's afloat, if she's floatable
and the man's rady and R+iilin' to go
to work again. Amiss -all hands are
satisfied the right thing's been done
This crew here -the heft of 'em
would row you to hell 'ever bilin' wa-
ter if you give the word' to launch
They've seen you go there and back
again more'n once since Oap'n Oz
was too sick. They'd be glad to have
you for skipper. And Ozzie wants
you ea be, and so does District Super-
intendent Kellog, for the matter, of
that. There's only one man I know
that hadn't ought to want it."
Seleucus thought of breakfast, and
his always present and enthusiastic
appetite hailed the thought joyfully.
Then he remembered the sort of cook
Badger yeas and the joy was chilled
with a dash of foreboding. It was
Ellis Badger who had accidentally
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lave hada :good 0b aslio
ter, :,Seleueus -lip -o at east'i.110
•tl►at was aii'erud u. 4Q. yo
stay here?"
IsPaPelnen grinned. ` cCalise I 'Alla,,
born a darn foil, •and ain't .growed.nut
Of the habit, I' esylate,'7. „ e eeid,,
swear off every fail' and vow' m
through life -ea -1W. Then I turn, to
and swear on again. There's soine-
thin' about this -this crazy job that
gets a feller, same as ruin. I like it."
Homer nodded. "I know," he said,
"Arid it's the same way with me. I
like it -and I can't give it up -yet.
I went into the service just as a time -
filler four years ago. I had been at
home up in the village for three
months with mother; she was sick,
and T had to be there. Then she died
and ---well, there was nothing else in
the way of work in sight, and here
was sixty-five a month, and a good
deal of fun. I meant to stay six
months, perhaps. I'm here yet."
"Yes, so you be. But you don't
have to stay here, twelve miles from
nowhere, do you?"
"No -o. But -well, I seem to be
married to the job."
Seleueus shivered. "Boy," he said
solemnly, "don't talk that way at your
age. If you was married you'd have
an excuse for the twelve miles -yes,
or fifty, . . . There, there! Let's
talk about somethin' cheerful. There
was a SAde drownded off a schoon-
er down along Race Point last week,
so Wallie Oaks was tellin' me. He
see it in the Boston paper day afore
yesterday when he was over to Har-
niss." ' a
The clock struck three bells and,
later, four. The grey streak along
the eastern horizon broadened, turn-
ed to rose and then crimson. Over
the edge of the Atlantic, seen beyond
the distant roofs of Orham, rolled the
winter sun. Seleucus yawned, stretch-
ed and took his cap from the hook.
"And that's over," he observed
thankfully, referring to his tern on
watch. "One more night nigher the
graveyard, as my grandmother used
to say, by way of brightenin' up
breakfast. Well, I don't need no'
brightenin' up for my breakfast. And
you ain't hnd yours neither, have
you? Here's Sam. Cal, let's you
and me go down and mug up."
Sam Bearse, raw-boned, tanned and
moustached, had entered the room,
while his fellow-surfman was speak-
ing. He grunted a "How be you,
Seleucus.? Hello, Cal," and, hanging
his cap hip on the hook, prepared to
take over the tower watch. Homer
and Gammon descended to the kitch-
en. Then they "mugged up," that is
they ate breakfast together., The
other men, .having already brealdast-
ed and washed the dishes -each
washing his oyvn-were now smoking
and skylarking outside the ,station in
the sunshine. It being clear weather
no one was on beach patrol that
morning.
Homer finished first, and, leaving
his comrade still busy with coffee
and doughnutsrose from the table
and prepared -Co go out.
"I'll attend to my dishes when I
come in, Seleyus," he said. "I'm go-
ing to look around a minute or two."
Seleucus nodded. "Heave ahead,"
he observed, his mouth 'full. "I'll be
clone after a spell. Cal'latin' to have
another cup of Ellis's coffee."
There was a chill in the air in spite
of the sunshine, but to Calvin Homer
and his associates the morning was
astonishingly mild and balmy. A lit•
tle breeze had sprung up and had
shifted more towards the north; the
beach grass in the hollows between
the dunes and on their crests was
waving, the water of the bay was
blue and sparkling. Over all, as al-
ways at Setuckit, sounded the surge
and hiss and thunder of the surf along
the beach on the ocean side.
Hezekiah Rogers, surfman Number
Four, hailed Homer as the latter pass-
ed.
"Wind's breezin' on a little mite,
Cal," he said. "And cantin' round
more to the no'th. Have you noticed
the glass? Fallin', ain't it?"
"Yes. It has been falling all night."
"I bet you! Never see a day like
this, this time of year, but it turned
out to be a weather breeder. We'll
have one old bird of a no'th-easter
by night-time, see if we don't. And
I have to turn out on patrol at 12.
Godfreys! Who wouldn't sell the
farm and' go to sea?"
Homer smiled, but did not answer,
and, turning the corner of the station
walked toward the buildings at its
rear. Two cars and' a weather-beat-
en terrier, the latter a survivor from
a wrecked schooner, came trotting to
meet him.\ In a lath enclosure ad-
joining the barn, a half-dozen hens
and a rooster ' with most of his tail
feathers blown or pecked away were
scratching -presumably for exercise
-at the sand. In the barn itself, the
station horses -a pair of sturdy ani-
mals, named respectively, "Port" and
"Starboard"i-were standing in their
stalls. The horses were almost as
valuable members of the Setuckit life-
saving outfit as the humans. They
pulled the boat wagons to the shore,
hauled the heavy car bearing the beach
apparatus -the latter comprising the
Lyle gun, the breeches buoy, the life
car, andall their paraphernalia -on
the rare occasions when the appar-
atus was used, and were respected
pampered and better fed than their
two -legged comrades. Homer patted
their heads, made sure that they had
been given their morning rations, and
turned to go out. Hez Rogers met
him at the barn door.
"Olive's lookin' for you, Cal," he
announced. "She says Ozzie's up and
rigged and ready to leave; and wants
"Who is that?" to see you."
"You yourself. You ain't a Scrub- Olive Myrick was the captain's wife.
bletown lo'bscouser, like the most of Her home was at West Remiss, nine
us. Your old man was a square -nig miles distant across the bay, but ishe
cap'n in his day, and your mother had come down to the station 'when
`was a Baker, and time was when her her husband- was taken ill, ands' had
folks was counted high-toned and been living there for three weeks The
worth money, so I've heard tell. You keeper was permitted, under the regu-
are ai'ttart. You've been to high lotions, to have his wife with him. In
school.. You could get a job up to some stations she acted as cook and.
Boston, and halve vessels of your own general housekeeper, receiving a small
vunnin' ashore afore yeti died, if you'd allowance for the work.
YI.
Yr,
"Nothin' but watchin', and plenty of
that. .I But you ain't told me why' you
have got you; dress -up clothes on.
Don't expect lho summer hoarders
dozen to watch beach drill this time
of year, do you?"
O.
el}i�t3^- tr `'4r 't'rlr
We Yee -1
All taut 'end
but well b� � an redci • ;
to`se , en '49'e''e go ng,t , *sS
:e all tlie' rciorg
,
you come; NOP:. : , And -On rsti ldji
have better weather for::`he trip''�`t
Myrick ',ignored. the xefereiace ^to '
appearance and the 'Weather. •He to
tinned. to thei only other chair in thea
room.
"Sit down, Cal," he ordered. "I've; on i
gote word or so to say to you," 'eau 'it.
Homer took the other chair; Cap • Con 'n,
taro Myrick drew a long breath.
'"Calvin," he went on, "I'm startin' .
on my lastcruise, and I know it." Eperimentat Piot;"
His., subordinate hastened to pro-,
test. "No, no!" he exclaimed. "You' Field inapfection tours e
shouldn't talk that way. What you
need is rest. You'll be all right in-"
"Sshh! We ain't young ones, you
and I, and there's no sense in mak erOps m g'enera'l in this aecio�F
in' believe. I'm never corrin' back. particularly' god and: xespq
I've got my orders and I'm bound in. crops to fertility treatment aS„ +
I know it -although I try to let Olive marked'. Especially is tbis,true' o
think I don't. But I do, and so does tatoes and wheat In a fertility
she, and so do you and all hands. ocofndCuhcetedmistrbyy thine OBru. A. CCoIunepyrt nnI'm through." potatoes have been running litlag"But, Cap'n---"
"Sssh! You're wastin' time, and I per acre.
ain't got much more to waste, down
here. There'll be a new skipper at R O.P. Proves Quality.,
the Setuckit Station inside of a month With the increasing demand fb,
-inside of a week, if my say-so high production laying -stock. `Record
counts -and you're the man that'll of Performance for Poultry comes iii:e
have the job, if you want it. What to its own. It is only lay such •a syn
I want to make ,sure of is that you tern of practical trap -nesting :on the
do want it. Do you?"
to
tion a perirnental plots
Ontario by Q A. C.; offic gs
in progress during ths'mb:pt'h
if
Mf'
owner's premises over .a consistent' '
Homer hesitated. He did want the period that the real worth of laying
appointment, wanted it more than he pullets can I43 determined oil a basis.' .
had ever wanted anything in his life which is commercially practicable. It
but he liked and admired the man be- is from such flocks as these that the
fore him, and his sense of loyalty was supply of high grade male- birds to
strong. head breeding pens for the coming
"I dop't see any use in talking a- season are largely available. With
bout that," he declared stubbornly. the present trend toward efficiency in
"You're the keeper here, and there production the male bird plays an„in
never was a better one. I've enjoyed creasingly important part. It is the
working under you and I'd like noth- male bird more than any other single
ing better than to keep on doing it as factor upon which success in' breed-
long ani I stay in the service." ing for production depends. 'It`ia
"Urn -hum. Well, what I'm asking estimated that, on a basis of seven
you is if you're figgerin' on stayin' male birds for every one hundred
in the service. Are you?" breeding hens, over 7,000 pedigreed . .
"Yes. I guess so. For the pres- cockerels will be required to meet the
ent, anyway." demand of the coming season.
"You guess so? Ain't you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. 'But-" Will Select Junior Judges.
"Never mind the buts. What do
you want to stay for? It ain't the Ontario will be represented by a
pay. I've been chasm' wrecks for team in the junior grain -judging
twenty -odd year, and all I'm gettin' competitions to be held at the
is seventy-five a month. You could World's Grain Exhibition in Regina
earn more'n that -a smart young in 1932. This decision was reached .
feller like you -at almost anything at the recent annual convention
ashore. What are you wastin' your of agricultural representatives of
time life-savin' for?" .w Guelph. The teams will be selected
It was the same question Seleucus by elimination contests, probably at '
Gammon had asked that very morn- four different points in the province.
ing. And Homer had asked himself The five boys . obtaining highest
that question many times during the score at each of these contests will
past months. And the answer, how- be taken to 0. A. C. and there given
ever, unsatisfactory, was always the further training. The three boys
same. who score highest out of the twenty
"I like the work, Cap'n," he replied. will represent the province. Intense
"I realize the pay amounts to noth- interest in the junior grain judging
ing. It isn't that. It is just -well competitions as well as in the inter -
there is something about it that-- agricultural college class, is evident
that---" in every province. The generous
"I know. And I know what 'tis too. award's offered are proving particn-
It's the same thing that makes a fel-
larly attractive apart altogether
ler go out cod'fisliin' right along, win- from the opportunity afforded juniors
ter and summer, when he could earn and young college students of re=
more money sawin' wood at dome." ceiiving excellent training in grain
"Yes. But, you see -well, it's a judging work
man's job."
"So's sawin' wood. But I know
what you mean. This life-savin'
game is a man's job -for a boy's wag-
es. And it's more'nthat- there's the South.
gamble in it. You kind of gamble
against all outdoors for your life and
the other man's. I know -Lord, don't
I! It's that, and the salt in your
blood and mine, that makes us stick
to it. And there's a kind of pride too.
Cal, the average man would call me
a fool, and I guess I am, but I've
took more pride in keepin' this sta-
tion the way it ought to be than I
would bein' President of the United
States."
"I understand. And you've kept it
well, too."
"Yes, I cal'late I can say I have.
And that's another thing I wanted to
say to you. If you're sure you want
to be keeper here; I'm goin' to recom-
mend you and my word ought to
carry some heft with the superintend-
ent. But, if you are skipper of this
station, I want you to promise me
you'll keep up the Setuckit record
Since I've been here we've handled
I don't know how many wrecks, some
of 'gem we got afloat, again and lots
of 'em we didn't, but we never lost
one life. I'm kind of proud of that."
"You ought to be."
"Maybe so; I am, anyhow. And
there's another thing I've took pride
in. There's never been a call come
to this station yet that we ain't an-
swered. There never was a vessel in
distress off our section-antl some
that weren't ours -that we ain't gone I West..
out to her, no matter how' much of a
gale of wind was blowin' nor what
kind of a sea was runnib'. And we
never started and then give up and
turned back. There ain't so many sta-
tions can say that."
"There aren't any others 'round
here that I know of."
"Um -um -hum. Well, I've took
some pride in that too. And I want
you to promise me you'll try to keep
up that record."
"I'll promise you that I'll do my
best."
LONDON AND WINGHAM t
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensel]
Exeter
North.
Exeter
Hensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrarve
Wingham
C. N. R.
East.
Goderich
Holmesville
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Columban .
Dublin
Dublin
St. Columban
Seaforth
Clinton
Holmesviil'e
Goderich
"That ain't quite enough, not at
Setuckit, 'tain't. You've got to do a
little mite core than your best. You'll
have to do things that ain't possible,
if you understand what I mean. ¶hat
is what makes it worth while, this
gamblin' game of ours. A feller has
to look off to wind''ard and sort of
grin and say, 'Well, by thunderwe'll
see!' And then go and see -and sea:
it through. Do you get my meanie?"'.
Calvin nodded. "I Ought to, reee
watched you," he said'4..grimly Loo1
here, Cap'n Oz: I don't want to brag,,
but I think -I think you can ootlnt'
a.m.
6.35
6.50
6.58
7.12
7.18
7.23
p.m.
2.05
2.22
2.33
2.40
3.08
3.26
3.33
3.39
3.53
10.59•
11.12
11.13
11.27
11.58
12.16
12.28
12.83
12.4'
2.40'
2.56
8.05
8,21
327
3.82'
11.29 9.17
11.29
11.40 9.80'
11.55 9.44
12.05 9.58
12.20 10.10
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